Posts tagged “That Dragon Cancer”

You want to meet That Dragon, Cancer [official site] more than half way. It's a game made about Joel Green, a young boy who at twelve-months-old was diagnosed with cancer, and it was created by his parents to memorialise his life. The story - which tells of his treatment, his parent's struggles with hope, despair and faith, and his eventual death aged five - is…

After twelve-month-old Joel Green was diagnosed with terminal cancer, his parents started making a game to tell his story, and their story, and to immortalise him digitally. Joel died they were still making That Dragon, Cancer [official site], at age five, but you can now hear his story as the game's out today.

That Dragon, Cancer [official site] is a biographical game, the documentary of a brief life translated into a series of "poetic, imaginative" interactive sequences. It tells the story of Joel Green, who was diagnosed with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor aged 12 months and died age five. Doctors had expected Joel to live around four months after the diagnosis and the game explores the experiences…

Any time a limb of RPS has had the opportunity to play That Dragon, Cancer, they've turned it down. As beautiful and exciting as it looks, it also seems harrowing. One needs to be in a certain mood to play a game based on a family's real-life story of raising their young son as he goes through terminal cancer. We've heard wonderful things about it…